Darlene & Lawrence Vonasek Darleen
was born in the Warren Hospital. She received the sacraments
of baptism and First Holy Communion from Father Joseph Mulvey
in St. Peter and Paul Catholic Church in Warren, Minnesota. She
was confirmed and later married in 1948 to Lawrence Vonasek at
Holy Trinity Catholic Church by Father August L. Zellekens, in
Tabor, Minnesota. Lawrence and Darleen bought their first home
at 710 North Third Street in East Grand Forks, now the site of
the Kennedy Bridge, which forced them to re-Iocate. They purchased
a home from Darleen's parents, which was located on the Point,
in East Grand Forks. This also happened to be 220 Highway, so
in raising six children this close to traffic, a few behinds
were paddled, for their own safety. Their children are of real
Czech and Slovak heritage. . . When Darleen was a teenager, she
helped families. When the mother had a new baby, she helped with
the caring of the other children in the family. She was employed
for eight years (1963-1971) at the Potato Processing Plant in
Grand Forks, North Dakota. Other jobs were at the VFW in Grand
Forks and for potato farmers during harvest. Lawrence has worked
several places, as truck driver - delivering vaults, for Concrete
Inc., Co-op Potato Warehouse, John P. Bushee Farms and for the
last seventeen years (1989) with the City of East Grand Forks
as a mechanic.